What is XFaces?

       XFaces is a program that will display an image for each
    piece of mail in your mail box.  This lets you know at a
    glance who you have mail from.  XFaces start out (when you
    have no mail) looking like a color xbiff.  As you receive
    mail XFaces becomes a column of mail icons.  Some of XFaces
    features:

      - Both mono and color images.

      - Optional Shaped window support with both xpm and xbm.

      - Sound support using the NetAudio protocol. The NetAudio server 
        currently supports Sun's SparcStation (SunOS 4.1.X and Solaris 2.2),
	SGI's Indigo and NCD MCX X terminals running NCDware 3.1 or later.

      - Face images can be "compressed" so that each image will only
        show up once on your display.  This way, if you receive 30 messages
        from one user, list or whatever the image will only show up once.

      - Sounds can also be compressed so that they will only play once
        each.

      - You can use regular expressions to search the To, Cc, Subject,
	and From lines to choose images and sounds. This lets you
	specify an image/sound for mail that comes from a mailing list.

       XFaces is based on the Xt Intrinsics (-lXt) and the Athena
    Widget set (-lXaw).  To build in Xpm support you need the
    xpm library (-lxpm) version 3.2 or later.  To build in the
    sound support you will need NetAudio (tested with 1.1).
    Both the xpm and the NetAudio distributions and publicly
    available with anon ftp from ftp.x.org in the contrib
    directory.
